Schools would be added to the list when they open it. But the department also said it simply doesn't have the resources to treat all of the side roads.

Fort Worth schools are preparing to eventually reopen. The heat is on in all buildings to keep pipes from bursting. All the boilers are on to keep them from breaking, and schools are constantly salting sidewalks.

Clay Carrillo-Miranda said he won't risk taking his children to school if the side roads near his home aren't safer by the time school reopens.

"If I'm staying home, my kids are staying home... If I don't feel safe working in it, I'm not going to put kids out there in it, either," he said.